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Sullo has sent the following announcement to the full disclosure mailing list indicating a new release of Nikto.

"I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Nikto 2.1.1!

Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performscomprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, includingover 6100 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdatedversions of over 950 servers, and version specific problems on over260 servers

In addition to bug fixes, 2.1.1 contains some new functionality, including:- New remote file inclusion (RFI) testing- Over 2300 new RFI tests (courtesy RSnake/OSVDB)- Sending of each test ID in the User-Agent- Libwhisker 2.5, which includes 2 new IDS evasion techniques- Ability to run specific plugins- XML report now includes SSL informationSee the CHANGELOG.txt file, cirt.net or assembla.com for the full listof changes.